Deutsches Auswandererhaus, Bremerhaven

Actually I expected much more. The idea of the management is to let you know the individual story of a single emigrant. The core part is an archive where you open drawers and discover the photos and bios of a single person. However, apart from the fact that this is quite tedious, you loose the general view of the phenomenon. There are also some reconstructions of ship cabins, however, it would have been much more interesting, for instance, to describe the content of their luggage, what they ate, etc.. Also overall statistics and general data are limited to few panels at the end of the visit. Honestly, I came out with the same knowledge I had before the visit.

Very nice. They put it a lot of work in setting the scene. The round course has everything covered from boarding the transatlantic ocean liner up to arriving in the states. There is a second round course for immigration as well. You will get an RFID card on entrance which provides you with one specific persons emigration story on each station. If you visiting again, it is very likely that you receive a story of a different person. This makes every visit unique and is a very nice concept. We also used their family ancestry research opportunities and actually found documents of our relatives leaving germany. Will definitely come again soon.